https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8587 Part of College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences until 2024/25 2026-10-18T01:21:44Z https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/34013 Title: Can the ‘Dark Triad’ traits be a predictor of cyber hate speech? Authors: Tennakoon, Hemamali Abstract: Antisocial behaviours have escalated to the cyberspace. Yet, the views on identification, mitigation and interventions relevant to minimising such behaviours lack consensus. Also, there are a multitude of antisocial behaviours studied in various online settings but not with clear demarcations between behaviours and their predictors. Hence, there is room for further research on cyber hate speech (a variant of online antisocial behaviour), particularly in Social Networking Sites (SNS). Hence, this article presents a brief review of literature exploring the triggers of antisocial behaviour, broadly identified as ‘cyber aggression’. Then, the question is raised whether cyber hate speech, a sub-set of cyber aggression is triggered by personality factors such as the ‘Dark Triad’ traits. Consequently, this paper contributes to knowledge by proposing to test personality traits as an important predictor of computer-mediated anti-social behaviour in SNS and provide directions for future research. ... 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33999 Title: Exploitative solidarity: Informal employment and the paradox of kinship among Turkish Migrants in the UK Authors: Aşkın, Deniz; Ateş, Hüsameddin; Turkmenoglu, Mehmet Ali; Özbilgin, Mustafa F Abstract: This qualitative study advances the concept of exploitative solidarity to explain how co-ethnic support networks can reproduce labour exploitation among Turkish-speaking immigrants in the United Kingdom. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 migrants in London and Leicester, the analysis demonstrates how kinship and compatriot ties that facilitate entry into employment frequently evolve into asymmetrical labour arrangements marked by excessive working hours, unpaid labour and the absence of contractual protection within enclave businesses. Contrary to assumptions that strong ties foster mobility, relational proximity often consolidates informational asymmetries and dependency, particularly where limited English proficiency restricts access to alternative networks. Within the present sample, gender mediated these dynamics, as men more frequently converted linguistic and occupational capital into exit pathways, while women’s incorporation remained structured through marital and kinship dependency. By theorising how solidarity becomes a vehicle of constraint within bounded ethnic labour markets, the study contributes to debates on migrant incorporation, informal employment and relational precarity in advanced economies. 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33998 Title: Interface frictions: (In)tolerances and the extractive labour of repair in airport digital infrastructures Authors: Veenhoven, Naomi Irene; Lin, Weiqiang; Ai, Qi Abstract: Contemporary public and corporate discourses frequently celebrate advanced automation as a seamless portal to frictionless, touchless mobility. Critical human geography, however, has long demonstrated that these computational networks remain deeply enmeshed in messy physical procedures and human agencies. This paper introduces the concept of interface friction—defined as the minor, quotidian slowdowns and subtle miscomputations that emerge where rigid software logic collides with the fluid variability of human life—to diagnose the unrecognised labour that sustains technically intolerant systems. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 88 airport frontline workers and managers at Beijing's Capital and Daxing International Airports, we trace how interface frictions systematically manifest across three relational registers of human difference: the corporeal, the procedural, and the affective. Rather than cascading into spectacular ruptures that trigger engineering overhauls or technological overhauls, these routine micro-stalls are normalised and tolerated with the help of often-unseen human efforts. We argue that the automated terminal functions by establishing an asymmetrical, extractive choreography of tolerance. When the technical boundaries of software code are reached, the system offloads the material drag of its own computational stiffness onto the stretched corporeal and affective capacities of staff (and sometimes users), who are enrolled to perform an uncompensated labour of repair. 2026-10-09T00:00:00Z https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33988 Title: Design-logic alignment in digital transformation: A qualitative meta-analysis of Kodak Authors: Ashrafi, Amir; Constantinides, Panos; Thatcher, Jason Bennett; Mehandjiev, Nikolay Abstract: Why does an incumbent like Kodak, despite investing early in digital technology, still fail to create and capture value? We argue that Kodak’s fate exemplifies a canonical paradox of digital transformation (DT) because its organisational identity, strategy, and technology imperatives were not aligned. While research in information systems, strategy, and organisation theory has long emphasised these three imperatives independently, we lack a DT-specific synthesis that explains how they become aligned or drift into misalignment. To address this gap, we reframe DT as a Design-Logic Alignment (DLA) problem. Based on a comprehensive review of DT research, we first develop a DLA framework that conceptualises DT as an ongoing process of aligning technology, strategy, and identity. We then identify a set of causal mechanisms that account for when and how such alignment or misalignment occurs and consolidate them in a summary table as a mid-range theoretical lens on DT. Finally, we apply the DLA framework in a qualitative meta-analysis of the extensive literature on Kodak, tracing distinct transformation modes, entry points across the three imperatives, and how the mechanisms manifest across episodes of its trajectory. Together, these contributions offer an integrated, multi-imperative process analysis and a more actionable diagnostic for understanding and managing DT success or failure. Description: Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868726000557?via%3Dihub#s0100 . 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z